Update: It is hard to tell exactly what is going on here. According to a pdf from the Secretary of State, as of 9:10 a.m. today, approxima...

Right now Donald Trump is down in the polls, with his remarks about the judge on his Trump University case reverberating and Hillary Clinton...

Here is Omar's response to my blog/letter addressed to him. I will have a follow up post either tomorrow or over the weekend but I just...

Dean is right about a few things here: As Australia’s election campaign heats up, it seems that one of the central issues is likely to be ...

This is a "polling station" in Long Beach, California at Super Suds Laundromat. Let's not quibble about AP "calling...

Yes, Omar, I would be delighted to elaborate. Thank you for asking. The point I am trying to make was stated by John Stuart Mill in On ...

An article buried deep in the Weekend Financial Times reports that the total of public bonds bearing negative yields has now passed US $ 10 ...

I would like to draw the readers' attention to an item I posted yesterday and say a few words about the significance of the discovery m...

There’s a link at Naked Capitalism to a Real News Network debate between Bob Pollin and Peter Victor over whether degrowth is part of the ...

from The Stage Coach, or the Road of Life (1843) by John Mills, chapter XI “The Mudlark”: The night was very bright; a sharp frosty air wh...

A year after World War I started (1915), the German economist, Werner Sombart, published a book entitled Handler und Helden (should be an u...

Not that I’m obsessed with Ms Klein, but consider this passage from her Said Lecture as published in the London Review of Books: ....the ...

Well, that’s a heavy title.  I’m not going to say the last word about it in a blog post, but I would like to make a fairly simple observatio...

John Graunt's  observation, " if there be but a certain proportion of work to be done ," was directly challenged by Thomas Co...